Been on vacation in France for a week so have not got around to this. Thanks for pointing it out.
They did remove my comment, (censorship by UKMA?) not really a problem, I see the competing petition only has 2 votes as of this morning (20 Oct). the petition I posted almost a month ago only has only 2114 votes out of 5000 needed, so it's not going to make the grade unfortunately. I don't know how many people visit the White House website and look at these petitions, but it's gratifying that a couple of thousand people support the transition to the metric system. As time goes on it gets buried deeper down the list! Mike Payne On 17/10/2011, at 22:56 , Kilopascal wrote: > Mike, > > Your comment at metric views has been removed. You might want to contact > someone and find out why. > > > > From: Kilopascal > Sent: Saturday, 2011-10-15 13:05 > To: [email protected] ; U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:51238] Re: White House Petition > > I saw your response there, but I think you need to provide a link to your > petition so that Ed is able to find it. > > > > Michael Payne says: > 2011-10-15 at 16:21 > It seems counter productive to have 2 petitions on the same topic at the > White House web site. Did you sign the first petition which has been there > about 3 weeks? > > > [USMA:51238] Re: White House Petition > > Michael Payne > Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:23:39 -0700 > > Thanks, I did leave a comment that it was counter productive. > > Mike > > On 15/10/2011, at 09:33 , Kilopascal wrote: > > > Mike, > > > > You should be aware that another person has started a metric petition at > > whitehouse.gov > > > > http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/metric-campaigner-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-23585 > > > > Ed the Yank says: > > 2011-10-13 at 01:42 > > Dear Folks, > > I know many of the readers of Metric Views UK are American Citizens. For > > World Standards week and in memory of Pat Naughtin i posted a petition to > > the > > US government for quick change to SI units. The quick link is > > https://wh.gov/2yt I need signers by 11 Nov. > > > > This is not good. First of all it looks like metric supporters are divided > > in that they can not speak with one voice. Second, even though the 2-nd > > petition has only received 2 votes (his and someone else from the same > > town), > > it can take away from your totals as people will not vote twice for the > > same > > topic. > > > > I hope Metric Views can contact Ed and let him know that his petition is > > redundant. > > > > > > > > >
